New paint range boosts Games Workshop profits

Britain's biggest fantasy games retailer said the introduction of new paints used by collectors to personalise action figures had helped boost pre-tax profit to £19.5m from £15.3m for the year to June 3.

Games Workshop, which sells board games and accessories, extended its Citadel paint range from 75 to 145 with a price tag of £333 for the complete set.

Boost: Games Workshop hit a high thanks to the popularity of its new paints range

The range sold out helping sales increase to £131m from £123.1m.

The firm also increased its final dividend to 63p-a-share from 45p. In an unusual review of the year chief executive Mark Wells borrowed some of the story telling from his shelves.